It's Springtime! Trees are budding. Birds are singing. Flowers are blooming. Huzzah!
One of the prettiest places in Holland is an area known as the bollenstreek (bulb district). Here you can travel to numerous tulip fields and experience spring in full bloom.
The Dutch cherish these beautiful, colorful flowers and at one point (about 400 years ago), a single tulip bulb could cost more than a house. Having tulips in your home back then was as impressive as having a Ferrari in your garage today.
Tulips come in pretty much every color of the rainbow, except blue. Pure blue tulips only exist by paint or Photoshop. There are about 150 species of tulip bulbs with 3000 different varieties. Tulips are a part of same family of lily flowers (and therefore relatives of onions!)
Materials: cardstock or watercolor paper, blue tape, watercolor paints, black pen (I used sharpie pen), acrylic paint. Remember that these projects are super flexible and you can swap out any material for what you have at your house. This could also be a watercolor resist painting, where you color the flowers with crayon and use watercolor paints over it.
I started out with a square piece of paper. I measured the halfway point and marked it with a pencil. This was just a guide to make sure my triangle was in the middle.
Tape off your triangle (or any shape you choose to do)
I drew all of the outlines, Make sure you draw spaces for the walkways as well!
I then watercolored the sky, the windmill the background, and the ground. I ended up painting the brown walkways last because I wanted the green parts to be completely dry.
Quick outline on the windmill with my sharpie pen because I thought the edges were getting lost in the background.
Acrylic paint on top. Experiment with color combinations and paint mixing. Think about what kind of texture you want your tulip field to have. No wrong way to do this!
Take the tape off and voila!
I hope y'all enjoy making this as much as I did.
Happy creating!
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